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I just wanted to share something with you ladies that has encouraged me every time I read it.
I have a book called “Captivating” by John & Staci Eldredge… I’m sure some of you have read it…if not, you should!
Anyway, as we go through life, there are times when we feel like maybe we don't matter.... We may feel that we are only appreciated for what we do, and not who we are, but I want to encourage you that God has created us for who we are. We are adored by Him, we are irreplacable, and He has a plan for us that no one else can fufill. I hope this will encourage someone.
“Creation in it’s early stages begins like any great work of art-With uncut stone or a mass of clay, a rough sketch, a blank sheet of music. “Formless and empty” as Genesis 1:2 has it. Then God begins to fashion the raw materials he has made, like an artist working with the stone or sketch or page before him. Light and dark, heaven and earth, land and sea-it’s beginning to take shape. With passion and brilliance the creator works in large, sweeping movements on a grand scale…. Forest and meadows burst forth. Tulips and pine trees and moss covered stones. And notice-the masterpiece is becoming more intricate, more intimate. He fills the night sky with a thousand million stars, and He names them, sets them in constellations….. The plot is thickening, the symphony is building and swelling, higher and higher to a crescendo. No wonder “the morning stars sand together and the angels shouted for joy” (Job38:7). A great hurrah goes up from the heavens. The greatest of all masterpieces is emerging……Most importantly, notice that each creature is more intricate and noble and mysterious than the last. A cricket is amazing, but it cannot compare to a wild horse. Then something truly astonishing takes place. God sets his own image on the earth. He creates a being like himself. He creates a son…. It is nearing the sixth day, the end of the creator’s great labor, as Adam steps forth, the image or God, the triumph of his work. He along is pronounced the son of God. Nothing in creation even comes close…. He is …magnificent. Truly the masterpiece seems complete. And yet, the Master says that something is not good, not right. Something is missing…and that something is eve!….She is the crescendo, the final, astonishing work of god. Woman. In one last flourish, creations comes to a finish not with Adam, but with Eve. She is the Master’s final touch….. Eve is created because things were not right without her. Something was not good. “It is not good for the man to be alone” (Gen 2:18). This just staggers us. Think of it. The world is still young and completely unstained. Adam is yet in his innocence and full of glory. He walks with God. Nothing stands between them. They share something none of us has ever known, only longed for: an unbroken friendship, untouched by sin….. Yet something in not good? Something is missing? What could it possibly be? Eve. Woman. Femininity. Wow. Talk about significance.”
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| Posted by Amanda on 06/16/2008 01:15 PM
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Captivating is an amazing book. I read it first a couple years ago and then again a few months back. If you are open to it, it can really change your perspective on God, and how you were made, and what you are meant to be. Its a easy read, yet its not. It makes you think, and it can take some processing on your end, to really get all you can get out of it. But its worth it, and I would encourage any woman, and man (to understand his wife better) to read it.
Blessings!
Kaulana :) |
| posted by Kaulana on 06/16/2008 01:51 PM
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| I agree that a husband could get a lot out of this book as well. John Eldredge also wrote "Wild at Heart" wich is the man's side of it. I just put a hold on it at our local library....I got it for me! My husband might read it, but if it's as good as this book was, I will learn alot about my husband...I'm excited!!! |
| posted by Amanda on 06/16/2008 02:07 PM
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| What a great share ladies ~ thank you I will definitely add it to my list!! |
| posted by Samantha on 06/16/2008 11:50 PM
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